Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
low 3.7

CVE-2024-38829 json

Spring LDAP sensitive data exposure for case-sensitive comparisons

published 2024-12-04 23 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-mqvr-2rp8-j7h4 , EUVD-2024-3490

cvss
3.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability in Spring LDAP allows data exposure for case sensitive comparisons.This issue affects Spring LDAP: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.3, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.9, from 3.1.0 through 3.1.7, from 3.2.0 through 3.2.7, AND all versions prior to 2.4.0.

The usage of String.toLowerCase() and String.toUpperCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions that could potentially result in unintended columns from being queried Related to CVE-2024-38820 https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38820

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core 2.4.4, 3.2.8

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-38829 updated cvss 3.7

spring-ldap: Spring LDAP sensitive data exposure for case-sensitive comparisons

  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core org.springframework.ldap/spring-ldap-core
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.ldap:spring-ldap-core
>=3.0.0, <3.2.8
<2.4.4
3.2.8
2.4.4

Affected products

  • Spring Spring LDAP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.